‘The place to be to celebrate’: Trundle ABBA Festival is Bjorn Again

‘The place to be to celebrate’: Trundle ABBA Festival is Bjorn Again

on again: Trundle is gearing up for its 2018 ABBA festival, which attracts thousands of visitors to the small town from the region, other parts of Australia and even overseas. Photo: FILE.

Former Trundle residents Steve Hayward (now of Parkes), Heather Tomlinson (Canberra) and Tim Carey (Meadow Bank) were in town - along with more than 30 others - for the 1982 Trundle Central School reunion, that tied nicely in with the Trundle ABBA Festival.

Carolynne James from Orange was aboard the Orange ABBA bus that brought 30 others out to the Trundle ABBA Festival on Saturday.

Scarlett (5), mum Heather and dad Fergus, Audrey (12), Doris (4) and Ruby (13) Taylor from Lucknow had a blast at the festival.

Making their way over to Berryman Oval for the headline act were Denise Ryan, Terri Hoani, Wendi Hoskins, Alison Salway, Sammi Dennis, Leslie Hoyes, Suzi Hancock and Chrissy Roberts, who came all the way from Yeppoon, Queensland.

Tribute band Bjorn Again is staging a brand new show for the 2018 Trundle ABBA Festival.

The band, which has performed over 5000 shows in 70 countries in the past 25 years, is returning to the small town for the May 5 festival for the fourth consecutive year.

Bjorn Again’s manager John Tyrrell said the band can’t wait to return, having seen the festival grow in leaps and bounds every year they have performed.

“It’s the biggest celebration of ABBA music we know of - and we have been around for nearly 30 years now,” he said.

“ABBA were one of the biggest pop acts of all time and Trundle is the place to be to celebrate an amazing band and their incredible music and image.

“It’s amazing and a credit to the organisers to have people travelling from overseas to the Australian outback for this incredible festival.”

For the 2018 Trundle ABBA Festival Bjorn Again will be performing an exciting new, two-part show; the first part will be the band playing ABBA’S classic 1976 album Arrival – including Dancing Queen – in its entirety, while part two is ABBA’s greatest hits.

“It was ABBA’s Arrival album that launched them into the pop stratosphere with songs like Money Money Money, Knowing Me Knowing You and Fernando,” Mr Tyrrell explained.

“We absolutely love what we do and we want to give our fans the best ABBA experience possible,” says Mr Tyrrell.